]]>Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:49:48 GMThttp://www.onesourceinspections.com/home-inspector-blog/for-immediate-release-nestor-garcia-earns-certified-master-inspectorr-designationMadera CA (Feb. 17, 2017) – One Source Real Estate Inspection is pleased to announce that Nestor Garcia is now credentialed as a Certified Master Inspector (CMI)®, which is the inspection industry’s top professional designation.

The Master Inspector Certification Board has awarded the Certified Master Inspector (CMI)® designation to Mr. Garcia for demonstrating the highest level of competency by completing 1,000 fee-paid inspections and/or hours of inspection-related Continuing Education, for having been in the inspection business for at least three years, for abiding by the industry’s toughest Code of Ethics, and for agreeing to periodic background checks.

Mr. Garcia wishes to thank his clients and colleagues for their continued support of One Source Real Estate Inspection.

### One Source Real Estate Inspection has been serving the Madera / Fresno / Merced area for the past three years, specializing in historic home and new-construction inspections, with an emphasis on energy savings and indoor air quality.​

The seller has accepted your clients' offer and now, with your help, your clients must choose a home inspector. Should you steer them toward the inspector who writes the softest reports? Should you steer them toward the inspector who pays to be on your office's preferred vendor list? Should you help them find the cheapest inspector? The answers to these questions are of course No, No, and Hell, no.

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